"Will my Muscle Turn to Fat if I Stop Working Out?"

This is another really popular question that has an easy answer, but for some reason this myth just won't die…

Muscle and fat are about as equal to each other as red meat and butter. They aren't the same fiber type and one can't become the other. It's physiologically impossible.

When you stop using your muscles at your current capacity, your body becomes significantly less efficient at burning calories, which allows body fat to start to accumulate. That's why the scale may not be changing in terms of the number, but your body composition certainly will when you start to lose muscle and add fat. What happens is that your ratio of fat to muscle will shift significantly and your body begins to look softer and less toned.

Your goal should be to add lean muscle while burning the fat. If you're a beginner you can just start with 2-3 days a week of body weight exercises. Then you can graduate to other forms of resistance to keep your from plateauing.